<p class="bodytext">Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">The people of the Negev<n id="1" /> will take possession<n id="2" /> of Esau&#8217;s mountain,p> <p class="poetry">and the people of the Shephelah<n id="3" /> will takep> <p class="poetry">possession<n id="4" /> of the land of<n id="5" /> the Philistines.p> <p class="poetry">They will also take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria,p> <p class="poetry">and the people of Benjamin will take possession<n id="6" /> of Gilead.<n id="7" />p>

Should you not have obeyed the words that the <sc>Lordsc> cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem<n id="1" /> was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah<n id="2" /> were also populated?p>

<p class="bodytext">Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands,<n id="1" /> the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel had commanded.